FREEPORT — Lincoln-Douglas Elementary School treated kindergarten through fourth-grade students to games, crafts, songs and stories Friday as part of the school’s Holiday Extravaganza 2014.Thirteen teams of students were...

The Geneva Conventions specifically ban torture, and the U.N. Convention Against Torture forbids the use of torture in all circumstances. Waterboarding, 180 hours of sleep deprivation, ice water baths and other atrocities described in the...

FREEPORT — The Family YMCA of Northwest Illinois, 2998 W. Pearl City Road, will offer classes to the community Dec. 22 to Jan. 3. Classes range from water workouts to indoor cycling and will be held Mondays through Wednesdays and...

Santa Claus may travel on a reindeer-powered sleigh, but he's expected to deliver a ton of high-flying drones this week to teenagers and other amateur aviators, which is making for an anxious yuletide season at the Federal Aviation Administration...

A great athlete is never satisfied.Just about any freshman wrestler competing at the NCAA Division I level with a record of 17-3 would be jumping for joy.But Dakota graduate and University of Northern Iowa wrestler Josh Alber would...

Tony Romo has made a late bid to beat out Aaron Rodgers for MVP, passing Rodgers for the NFL lead in both passer rating (114.4 to 111.0) and total QBR (82.3 to 81.0) and leading Dallas to the same record as Green Bay (11-4). Still, my eye test...